On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, M. Fioretti wrote:
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:43:59 +0200
From: M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected], M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an
entirely negative thing
"Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's
management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own
OOo flavor"
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794
His interview seems to me, that he is much the same as Sun was when it
took over Star Office (from 5.2).
It seems to be "The software should be what we, the software
owners and developers want, and who cares about what the users want!".
The enhancements that he and his gogo software (sounds like the
gogomobile!) have and intend to implement, include the promotion of
proprietary software, with contempt for users of systems that do not
include the proprietary software.
The .docx file format should be shut out, for the malicious,
proprietary, exclusive, monopolistic creation that it is, authorised by
a standards organisation of now dubious integrity, in order to appease
massive commercial proprietary interests.
The use of the two formats for word-processed documents; the .rtf and
the .doc (M$ WinWord97) file formats, allowed almost all existing word
processors, and text editors (through the .rtf file format), to be able
to freely access and read, and, edit, files of those formats, and, the
encouragement of the .docx file format by the gogo software development,
is just a cynical ploy to close access to software from people who don't
ant to pay lots of moner for proprietary software, which seems to me, to
be against what Linux and the Internet are all about.
And, apart from the closed nature of his (and Sun's) development ("We
are developing this software, solely to suit our own needs, not the
needs of the plebs that might be silly enough to use it!") of the "open
office" products that they have been developing, their products STILL
lack the functionality, and usefulness of Star Office 5.2.
So, to me, Meekses gogo software company, seems no better that what Sun
did to Star Office 5.x, when Sun took over the Star Division (the
company that owned and developed Star Office, up to 5.x ?), and
eliminated alot of the functionality of the software, to impose its own
ideas of what the software should be, instead of what was useful to
users, and turned the software into a bloated, less useful product,
that wrecks work done by users.
And, I wonder whether his gogo software, corrupts files, such as the
malicious corruption of HTML files, the same way that "Open Office"
2.4.x corrupts the files, by maliciously inserting code, against the
wishes of the user, causing vi to be the preference for creating and
editing HTML files, as VI does not corrupt the files.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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